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title = "State of the Projects"
date = 2024-08-11
description = "Another state of the projects."
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State of the Projects {#state-of-the-projects-1}
=====================

A lot of things have gone no where, especially over the last year.
However, I\'ve made a lot of progress in terms of self-improvement. And
professionally and academically I\'m progressing.

fenrisg
-------

When I wrote it, I had certain ambitions in mind and I was working on a
project to maintain a lot of shell scripts from a monolith written
decades ago. But over the last two years I\'ve had so many different
projects that do not use shell scripts that I no longer care.

The other factor of fenrisg was when I briefly took over forgefed. I
wanted something consistent, so I built it over pandoc. I know this goes
off into a tangent, but over the last year I\'ve been using pandoc a lot
less and pdflatex/pdftex a lot more.

I have further criticisms I have about fenrisg, some of which is rooted
in pandoc. I do not like the metadata block or the lua processing, the
additional script for building the homepage, or the static light/dark
modes. Just for the latter, which is not related to pandoc, contemporary
CSS allows for prefers light and dark from the browser which can also
follow the system, which is amazing. Not surprising, but just plain
great. Why wasn\'t it like that before! =D

That said, fenrisg works fine, though I think I\'d like to start a new
version, migrate to another language, or even migrate to an existing
project, possibly back to pelican. When I still used pelican in the
past, there were a few things I didn\'t like about it. Perhaps I can
create some kind of a meta project that handles some of that. I think
overall I would prefer just migrating to another language.

Novel Ideas
-----------

Most of my career has been maintaining old code. I went through some
kind of a golden age maybe in the mid to late 2010s when I was fortunate
to work on several green field projects. But most of those have been
replaced or amandoned. People have moved on, employers have retired,
gone out of business, or passed on. And even though I let every one of
them know that I prefer free software/open source/(commerical) creative
commons, none of that has really worked out.

My work in the free software world has progressed differently, but
mostly ended up in the same place. I spent a lot of time on gnusocial,
more than anything else during my stewardship of the dot-no site. I wish
I could get that time back. Ultimately both the effort and the social
connections fizzled out. The same goes for MED, and though the social
connections have faded, I am glad for the time spent there.

I have one thing that I am currently helping to maintain that might be
worth contributing to. There\'s a project called myinfo which is
basically self-service IdM with a few other features that was freed at
some point during development. The current repo I maintain still has the
MIT license included. I have found some other forks of the project aside
from the repo from the former lead developer. On the other hand, I
don\'t know who would use it. I think if I could point anyone to
anything IAM-related I would suggest Internet2/Incommon projects.

I feel like this is turning into a rant about how freeing code and
dogfooding is a bad idea. Maybe that can happen, but that\'s not what I
really mean.

Misc
====

I had a recently change my monofont to work properly with Starship (and
my terminal). I don\'t really know what happened; probably some system
default changed.

Reading
=======

Current Events
--------------

-   [Washington tied with Texas for... shooter incidents in 2023 \|
    king5.com](https://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/washington-state-active-shooter-incidents-fbi-data-2023/281-2b259823-7d07-45df-8cd1-6f8d006f7c14)

git
---

-   <https://initialcommit.com/blog/git-gc>

History
-------

-   <https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/168709/the-man-who-invented-the-computer-by-jane-smiley/>
-   <https://www.scribd.com/doc/51267328/Frank-Invention-of-Horned-Helmet>
-   <https://www.primalsurvivor.net/shtf-survival-tips-and-stories-from-bosnian-war-survivors/>

Maths and Applied
-----------------

-   <https://www.people.vcu.edu/~rhammack/BookOfProof/>
-   <https://cmput229.github.io/229-labs-RISCV/RISC-V-Examples_Public/04-Loops/04c-For_Loops.html>

Misc
----

-   <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%8D%B1%E9%99%BA#Japanese>
-   <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican>
-   <https://github.com/hhauer/myinfo>
-   <https://pdftex.org>

Programming
-----------

-   <https://github.com/sunsided/mnist>
-   <https://github.com/trentm/python-markdown2>
-   <https://higherorderco.com/>
-   <https://mojolang.org/>

User Experience (UX)
--------------------

-   <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/cursor>
-   <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/win32/uxguide/inter-mouse>
-   <https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_class_cursor.php>
-   <https://webaim.org/techniques/hypertext/link_text>
